The woman's book, dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 98
upon the contractor. To readthe specifications over with concen-trated attention sometimes affords ameans of discovering omissions ; butperhaps the better way is to discuss increase the amount of the bill. Theinexperienced will fall readily into ex-pensive changes from ignorance, andbecause… … Mantel in the Wister House, Germantown, Pa. the matter freely with neighbors andfriends who have already built, andlearn from them the errors to avoid. If the architect has omitted somerequisites not included in the specifica-tions where they belong, theymust, of course, be supplied, andthus made…
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